Zhang Xuan sat alone in the pavilion for a while, he was still savoring the conversation with Lu Zuo just now, there were actually many unfinished things in it, and he had to rely on himself to understand. ∽↗，

Lu Qing obviously won't tell her father that she has a relationship with herself, which is a girl's reserve, and it is also a secret she hides in her heart.

But Lu Zuo may not have guessed that a pair of young people stayed together for two days and two nights, sharing weal and woe, and it was impossible not to touch the fire of emotion, Lu Zuo obviously understood this, but his daughter kept her innocence, so he said that the great grace was remembered in his heart.

Zhang Xuan also guessed another meaning of Lu Zhuo's search for himself, that is, he hoped that he would not spread this matter, not only related to the reputation of the Lu family, but also he didn't want the Cui family to come to trouble, after all, the Lu family couldn't afford to offend the Cui family to some extent.

Zhang Xuan suddenly felt bored, Lu Zhuo took everything into account, but he didn't take into account his daughter's feelings, he didn't take his daughter's thoughts to heart at all, as long as his daughter was safe and innocent, he didn't care about the rest of the things, in the final analysis, he still only thought about himself.

At this time, several guests were talking and laughing along the path to the pavilion, Zhang Xuan didn't want to be noisy, turned around and left the pavilion, just walked down the rockery, only to see Lu Qingyuan hurriedly running, "Brother Zhang Xian, I'm late." ”

"Where's Gyokuro?" Zhang Xuan didn't see Luo Cheng and asked curiously.

"He was really stumped this time, he wanted to run away every time he saw my cousin, but this time he was forcibly left behind by his aunt and asked him to chat with his cousin."

Zhang Xuan couldn't help laughing and said, "It's that Yun girl!" ”

"You know that, too!"

Lu Qingyuan laughed, "That little girl can speak well, she is extremely smart, I don't know how long I want to pester Yulang, he has a big head." ”

Lu Qingyuan walked through a courtyard door with Zhang Xuan, and said with a smile: "I'll take you to meet a group of friends." I guess you will be interested. ”

Lu Qingyuan was instructed by his father to treat Zhang Xuan as a distinguished guest, although he didn't know the reason, Lu Qingyuan understood the meaning of the distinguished guest in his heart, not only to entertain him well, but also to bring him into the distinguished guest circle.

Lu Qingyuan took Zhang Xuan to the front lobby. The front compounds were crowded with guests.

Lu Qingyuan and Zhang Xuan came to a small pavilion, and there were more than a dozen people sitting in the pavilion, all of whom were children of famous families in Hebei.

"These are all my friends and distinguished guests of the Lu family, let me introduce you to my brother."

Lu Qingyuan introduced everyone to Zhang Xuan one by one.

"This is Cui Wenxiang, Boling Cui's family."

Lu Qingyuan whispered to Zhang Xuan again: "His father is Cui Zhao, the head of the Boling Cui family, and he is currently the squire of the Ministry of Works. He is most likely the future head of the Cui family. ”

"It's been a long time!" Zhang Xuan's eyes narrowed, looking at the so-called future head of the Cui family, could it be that this Cui Wenxiang wants to marry Lu Qing?

Cui Wenxiang was extremely polite, and seemed to gladly accept the introduction of the future head of the family, got up and smiled back to Zhang Xuan, and Lu Qingyuan introduced another person to Zhang Xuan, "This Li Mingqing, the famous family of the Li family of Zhao County." ”

Li Mingqing looks elegant and elegant. There was a bit of a fairy wind in his gestures, and Zhang Xuan thought of Li Jing. Li Jing is the descendant of the Li family of Zhao County, maybe he is still the uncle and cousin of Li Qingming, he also smiled and gave a salute, Li Mingqing nodded with a smile.

"This is Bai Xinyang, Xiangguo Bai!" A tall, thin young man as tall as a bamboo pole stood up and saluted.

"This is Pei Wenyi, Wen Xi Pei. Grandson of Dr. Yu Shi Pei. "Zhang Xuan met Pei Yun in the Tiansi Pavilion case, and he had a good impression of Pei Yun, and he also had special respect for Pei Wenyi.

Pei Wenyi also returned a salute to Zhang Xuan, these famous children are all very well educated and polite. There is no such thing as rudeness.

"This is Cui Yuanhan, Qinghe Cui, and my best friend."

More than a dozen children are from famous families in Hedong County, Hebei Province, people are divided into groups, Lu Qingyuan is obviously one of them, at this time, a Lu elder hurriedly ran over, shouted to Lu Qingyuan: "Erlang, no one outside the gate to receive guests, the two family masters are angry, you go quickly!" ”

Lu Qingyuan was helpless, today he was responsible for greeting the guests, and it was his dereliction of duty that no one received guests outside the gate, so he had to apologize and say to Zhang Xuan: "Please forgive Zhang Gongzi, I will be absent for a while!" ”

"It's okay, Brother Lu, please take care of yourself."

As soon as Lu Qingyuan left, Bai Xinyang, who was sitting next to Zhang Xuan, asked with a smile: "All the people here are Hebei scholars, Qinghe Zhang is a famous family in Hebei, Zhang Xuan is Qinghe Zhang?" ”

Although Bai Xinyang asked very politely, he was really a little uncomfortable in his heart, he saw Zhang Xuan wearing a thin linen shirt, wearing a flat scarf, completely dressed as a civilian, and there was actually a knife on his waist, and the saber was just that, the scabbard was still half-new, which made people suspect that he was the martial artist of the Lu family, and he was actually sitting next to him.

Zhang Xuan also noticed that this group of young sons were all dressed in brocade and jade robes, wearing gold crowns and gorgeous long swords at their waists, and they looked a little out of place sitting in them.

He smiled bitterly in his heart, it seemed that Ah Yuan was indeed prescient, but how could he know that he would be pulled into the circle of famous children.

In fact, Zhang Xuan also knows that he should dress well as a guest to show respect for his master, but he doesn't like to wear gorgeous clothes by nature, he has been wearing sportswear since he was a child, and after joining the army, he has a military uniform every day, and when he enters the Army Academy, he is also a military uniform, he has grown so big that he has not even worn a suit.

And he doesn't really want to be a guest today, he doesn't even have an official invitation, how can he talk about being a guest? There is no need to dress up emotionally, he just wants to find a chance to meet Lu Qing, otherwise he will not come at all.

So he wore his favorite fine linen blue shirt, but he didn't know that he was pulled into the circle of famous children by Lu Qingyuan, which made him feel a little embarrassed.

But embarrassment is embarrassment, but he doesn't think he is inferior, so when Lu Qingyuan invited him to sit down, he also sat down calmly.

Zhang Xuan smiled faintly, "It has nothing to do with the Qinghe Zhang family, and I don't have a Qinghe county accent, I am actually from Chang'an, and I was born as a civilian." ”

"Oh-"

Bai Xinyang let out a long sigh, his face became a little unnatural, and his ass involuntarily moved to the right, a few inches away from Zhang Xuan.

Then. Cui Wenxiang glanced at Li Qingming, Li Qingming understood, and asked with a smile: "I heard Qingyuan say that Brother Zhang Xian is an official in Luoyang, I don't know what position he holds in Luoyang?" ”

Everyone's eyes were focused on Zhang Xuan, although Zhang Xuan's voice just now was not loud. But many people can hear it clearly, it turns out that they were born in commoners, which makes them puzzled, can a commoner actually attend the birthday banquet of the old man of the Lu family, could it be that he is an upstart in the officialdom?

Zhang Xuan smiled, "Down there are the guards of the Yan Palace!" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and it seemed that Lu Qingyuan had made the old mistake of 'being a hero from a poor family' again, and actually introduced a small guard to them, although they looked down on Zhang Xuan. But he was even more angry that Lu Qingyuan did not distinguish between respect and inferiority, and broke the rules of hierarchy at will.

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the gate valve system has been deeply rooted in the Central Plains, in that era, everyone wants to whitewash themselves as a famous family, even the low-born Liukou Dou Jiande has a shy face and claims to be the descendant of the famous minister Dou Gu of the Han Dynasty.

The style of the gate valve of the Sui Dynasty was still very strong, and the government of the Great Sui Dynasty was not so much controlled by the emperor as it was controlled by these gate valve families.

During the Sui Dynasty. People are proud to associate with the children of the family, but the children of the poor family rarely enter the power circle of the gate valve.

Families intermarried with each other. Even if there is a mountain of gold and jade in an ordinary family, and a famous family is in the middle of the road, and there is nowhere to stand up, the latter does not bother to marry the former.

This is the social reality, for the famous family. The dignity and honor of the family must be maintained, and the interests of the family always come first.

For the sake of the interests of the family, credibility, family affection and conscience can be sacrificed, and even their own lives can be sacrificed if necessary, and this sense of loyalty to the small group is also the core cohesion of the survival of each family.

The children of the family didn't care that the Great Sui Dynasty lost the hearts of the people. Eventually, it led to a change of dynasty, and the family has gone through too many dynasties, but they have always stood tall.

Although there are people like Lu Qingyuan who have a little insight in the family, they are definitely rare and an outlier in the family.

In fact, Lu Qingyuan didn't understand, he also wanted to work hard to change this bad habit, so he introduced Zhang Xuan to the children of famous families, but unfortunately his strength was weak, not only did it not work, but also caused him to be rejected by the children of the family.

The pavilion was silent, and for a moment, Cui Wenxiang coughed and continued to say the topic just now, "Although Hebei has internal worries, I think external troubles are the biggest threat, and now we use too much national strength to deal with the small Goguryeo, but we turn a blind eye to the increasingly powerful Turks, it is very unwise, once the Turkic army goes south to Hebei, everything it passes is powder, how can our Hebei family survive on its own?" It's worrying! ”

Li Qingming said with a smile: "I think Brother Wen Xiang is too worried, although the Turks have the ambition of invading the south, but the greater threat is Hedong and Guanlong, followed by Hebei, the Turks cherish horsepower and will not be willing to seek the near and far, besides, the Turkic Khan and the Great Sui are each other's in-laws, how can they say that they will fight?" ”

Everyone was talking about it, and Zhang Xuan heard that they didn't get to the point, so he smiled and said: "It's not that the Turks don't want to invade the south, but the position of Shibi Khan is unstable, and the Tiele tribes are dissatisfied with the Turkic rule, and there are brothers secretly fighting for power, and it is good if he wins in the south, but once he fails, it will inevitably provoke civil strife, and he has to consider this, so the Turks will not easily go south in a year or two." ”

Although Zhang Xuan's analysis was very incisive, there was silence in the pavilion, and no one should talk to him, at this time, Cui Wenxiang changed the topic and said with a smile: "I heard that Song Xuanyu, a famous prostitute in Zhao County, is unparalleled, did Brother Ming and Qing go to kiss Fangze?" ”

"Where do I have it, I guess Wen Xiang has this idea!"

Everyone clapped their hands and laughed, but they left Jang Hyun aside, no one paid attention to him, this is the cold violence of the literati, they are all polite, they are proud of their status, they will never speak ill of each other, nor will they sneer at each other, but they use the means of snubbing and ignoring the unsociable to exclude the unsociables.

Zhang Xuan only sat for a moment, then got up and left, he was fed up with the arrogance of these children of the family, Bai Xinyang glanced at Zhang Xuan's back, and said disdainfully: "A hillbilly who doesn't know how to be polite doesn't even know how to say hello!" ”

Cui Wenxiang glared at him angrily, and Bai Xinyang hurriedly said, "Okay!" Good! If I don't talk about him, I don't think there is this person. ”